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Technology writer of Spyglass, a newsletter about technology and media. Previously a reporter at TechCrunch and an investor at GV.

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  The unbundling of cable television was always going to be followed by a re-bundling of streaming services.

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  The great un-bundling of cable was always going to lead to a re-bundling of streaming. It's simply too expensive and too chaotic without a more central hub.

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  Starlink

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  Watch your favorite games live on @Starlink

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Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.

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  Starlink Mini

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  And one Starlink Mini for travel which we used last month on a boat in the Mediterranean, we had a balcony with only a little bit sky horizontally and still got 25mbps, which was way faster than the onboard WiFi

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Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what they think it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade their own past calls.

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  The only reliable way to build a robustly aligned mind is to make it an antifragile agent that wants to improve its own character, not one that merely pursues fixed goals.

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  I think this is ultimately the only way it can work, you need an antifragile ally, the friendly gradient hacker. Indeed, I think it is the only way we have ever seen a robustly aligned human, that you would trust to scale outside of their circumstances.

  An Alien Mind: Jakub Pachocki Warns Usthezvi.substack.com

Chief Scientist at OpenAI. Worked on the research that turned scaled reinforcement learning into reasoning models, and writes about where he thinks that path leads.

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  Chain-of-thought monitoring is getting less reliable, not more, as models grow more capable.

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  However, unfortunately our evaluations indicate our ability to rely on CoT monitoring is progressively diminishing.

  An Alien Mindopenai.com

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  Current prompt-injection defenses for AI agents (such as auto mode) are now reliable enough that agents can practically be assumed safe from successful injection attacks.

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  It is in practice safe to assume your agents are not going to get prompt injected, even if you are kind of asking for it.

  Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1: The System Cardthezvi.substack.com

Sequoia Professor of Computer Science at Stanford, co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, and co-founder and CEO of World Labs.

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  Robot training data is not just recordings of a task: the environment has to be randomised, or the policy only ever learns the one cable it was shown.

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  There is also a very important step called randomization. Is that you have to take the same environment and then randomize the conditions. So, the cable doesn't literally only, you know, uh bend this way. It can bend a different way or the box can have different sizes, colors, different lids, and all that.

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Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.

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  Solar power combined with batteries has surpassed nuclear power as the superior energy technology for most uses.

  solarenergy

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  Because solar has, broadly speaking, won the technological race. Intermittency was the last big problem, and batteries have gotten good and cheap enough to make solar reliable.

  Why you won’t get a flying carnoahpinion.blog

Writer and teacher on productivity and personal knowledge management. Author of Building a Second Brain and founder of Forte Labs, which runs the course of the same name.

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  Traditional institutions like news outlets and teachers are being replaced by independent digital content creators as sources of everyday advice.

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  I think a lot of traditional sources of information and education - from cable news to newspapers to textbooks to teachers - are being replaced by digital content creators.

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Epidemiologist; founded Your Local Epidemiologist in March 2020 to translate public-health science, and consults for organisations including the CDC.

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  Reliable public health data is as valuable as gold for protecting people's lives.

  America

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  Public health data isn't just information; it's a vital resource, as valuable as gold, for protecting Americans' lives.

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Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb; essayist at paulgraham.com.

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  One reliable tell of AI writing is excessively colorful verbs where a normal person would use a plain one.

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  I was thinking about how I recognize AI writing, and one big tell is excessively colorful verbs. A handful of journalists might write that a proposal "drew" 100 votes, but any normal person will just say "got".

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Emeritus professor of war studies at King's College London; wrote Strategy: A History and Command, and writes about the wars in Ukraine and Gaza as they happen.

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  The fog of war has changed form: a shortage of reliable information has been replaced by information that is plentiful but contradictory, dated and manipulated.

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  In Clausewitz’s time, the problem was a scarcity of reliable information; now the information is plentiful, but it can be contradictory, dated, manipulated, and excessive.

  AI and the New Fog of Warsamf.substack.com

Software engineer and writer; worked on Mapbox and built Placemark and Simple Statistics, and blogs at macwright.com.

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  Bluetooth technology is generally unreliable.

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  Virtually nothing that uses Bluetooth is reliable, and this is no exception.

  Printing tiny photos for paper journalsmacwright.com

Physician and neuroscientist at the University of Washington; researches brain health, metabolism and athletic performance.

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  Putting older adults into activities that are genuinely new to them improves cognitive function in randomised trials, with executive function the most reliable gain.

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  However, there's an increasing body of literature that shows that by engaging older adults in novel cognitive activities, you see improvements in function. So that can be language learning. Uh that can be uh complex like coordinative movement or exercise. You see the same things with um like musical training like people learning a new musical instrument or learning um musical theory trying to identify different patterns in music. And you see in randomized control trials improvements particularly in executive function that seems to be most common across those different interventions.

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Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.

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  A user's own behavior over time is a more reliable signal of what they want to see than who they explicitly follow.

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  A user's behavior, especially as it changes over time, is a better signal for what the user wants to see.

  A Bluesky feed for oneadamwiggins.com

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  Elgato Wave 3

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  Microphone: Elgato Wave 3. This, with the boom, is convenient and reliable. Big upgrade from the Blue Yeti I used previously.

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Builds developer tools — SST, and now OpenCode at Anomaly. Posts constantly on x.com and writes almost never; the blog stopped in 2021.

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  A small company's most reliable play is to pick one temporary bad guy and galvanise all of their competitors into pushing something forward against them.

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  the strategy that we know how to play really well is to pick one temporary bad guy and then galvanize all their competitors to push something forward against them.

  Building OpenCode with Dax Raadyoutube.com

Investigative journalist on policing, forensics and criminal justice; wrote Rise of the Warrior Cop and writes The Watch.

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  Non-coercive interrogation still produces confessions, and more reliable ones, so coercion is not the price of solving crimes.

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  Canada and much of Europe have adopted different interrogation techniques — such as the PEACE method — which emphasize collecting reliable information over coercion. These approaches still garner confessions; they’re just more reliable.

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Austrian developer. Created the libGDX game framework, and more recently the pi coding agent, which moved with them to Earendil — Armin Ronacher's company — in April 2026. Writes at mariozechner.at.

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  In an agent-written codebase the agent-written tests are equally untrustworthy; manually using the product is the only reliable measure of whether it works.

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  Worse, you realize that the gazillions of unit, snapshot, and e2e tests you had your clankers write are equally untrustworthy. The only thing that's still a reliable measure of "does this work" is manually testing the product.

  Thoughts on slowing the fuck downmariozechner.at

Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.

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  Prompt injection has no equivalent of parameterized queries: there is no reliable way to tell a language model which text is data and which is instructions.

  LLMs

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  Problem is, you can solve SQL injection by parameterizing your queries. You can't do that with LLMs.

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Software entrepreneur who bootstrapped and sold FeedbackPanda and now builds Podscan; writes The Bootstrapped Founder.

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  Real-world, human-generated data is becoming the only durable moat for software businesses over the next decade.

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  I believe that data - real-world data, mostly human-generated, validated, and cleaned - is the only reliable moat we have as software founders in the near and mid-term future.

  Data Is the Only Moatthebootstrappedfounder.com

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  GPT-based AI systems can now reliably automate around 80% of data acquisition and verification work.

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  The GPT systems have gotten so good that they can do a reliable 80% of the work I used to do when it comes to data acquisition and verification.

  When Long-Term Investments Finally Pay Offthebootstrappedfounder.com

Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade. Came back from a break to work on AI agents — the OpenClaw project, and OpenAI, joined in February 2026. Writes at steipete.me.

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  Opus is the silly but funny coworker you keep around; Codex is the weirdo in the corner who reliably gets things done, and no model wins on every axis.

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  Some other comparison is like, Opus is like the coworker that is a little silly sometimes, but it's really funny and you keep him around. And Codex is like the, the weirdo in the corner that you don't wanna talk to, but is reliable and gets shit done.

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Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.

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  Data centres in orbit will be a better business than Starlink, because an inference token is worth far more per byte than a video packet.

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  The economics of orbital “datacenters” or essentially glorified Starlink satellites with a bunch of GPUs attached are likely to be even better than Starlink.

  Space AI: I guess we’re doing Moon factories nowcaseyhandmer.wordpress.com

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  Erratic U.S. tariff implementation is teaching allies and enemies that the U.S. is no longer a reliable trading partner.

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  Tariffs, and especially the erratic implementation of them, are teaching our allies and enemies alike that the US is no longer a reliable trading partner.

  JL Goes International, and to ETFs…… Oh my!jlcollinsnh.com

Writer of MacSparky and author of the MacSparky Field Guides on Apple productivity software. A lawyer for 30 years before going full-time on the site, he co-hosts the Mac Power Users and Focused podcasts.

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  Apple Notes

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  The big revelation? Apple Notes is really good. I mean it. After spending months in it for the Field Guide, I’m all in on Apple Notes for general note-taking. It’s fast, reliable, and more capable than most people realize.

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  A personalized classifier needs several hundred labeled examples before its predictions become reliable.

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  Predictions were poor until I got to over 250 samples in the training set.

  Email triage with an embedding-based classifieradamwiggins.com

Writer on habits and decision-making; author of Atomic Habits and the 3-2-1 newsletter, and publisher of long-running book recommendation lists.

From one piece The Silent Cost of Bad Habits | James Clear 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  The reliable method is to run many small experiments, commit fully to whatever works, and keep at it until it stops working.

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  Try a number of things, right? So, experiment with a number of things. Run a number of small experiments. Once you find something that works, double down on it and then keep doing it until it stops working, which is the step that a lot of people skip. Um, and then once it stops working, go back to the start and try a lot of small experiments again.

  The Silent Cost of Bad Habits | James Clearyoutube.com

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  Belief and behavior run in both directions, so the more reliable way to change what someone believes about themselves is to act first.

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  behavior and belief is like two-way street. You know, what you believe will influence the actions that you take, but the actions that you take can also influence what you believe about yourself. And you know, every time you show up and do it in some small way, you prove to yourself a little bit, hey, maybe I am that kind of person. And so, my encouragement, my suggestion is to let the behavior lead the way.

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Co-founder of Rockstar Games, lead writer of the Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption series, and founder of Absurd Ventures since leaving in 2020.

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  Tetris on the Game Boy is perfect game design, and from a pure puzzle perspective nothing else comes close.

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  And when you link two together with the cable and if I got four, it would push yours forward. It was like the perfect game design. So from a pure puzzle perspective, nothing comes close.

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China economy researcher based in Beijing who writes on his personal blog about Chinese political economy, history, books and music.

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  Modern instruments generally have more reliable tone, range, and projection than the traditional instruments they replace

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  modern instruments generally have more reliable tone, wider range, and better projection than traditional instruments-they are better as instruments.

  First explorations in Indian classical musicandrewbatson.com

Writer and academic, author of The Cult of Smart and How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement; writes a daily newsletter on politics, education and culture.

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  In thousands of years of trying, nobody has found a reliable, repeatable way of moving a child from one educational percentile into another.

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  But in thousands of years of education humanity has discovered no replicable and reliable means of taking kids from one educational percentile and raising them up into another.

  Education Doesn't Work 3.0freddiedeboer.substack.com

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  An off-grid data centre needs nothing connecting it to the world but an optical fibre — no transmission line, no interconnection, no grid at all.

  data centers

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  But then all you need to connect that to the outside world is like an optical fiber, right? An optical fiber cable which you can string up on poles, you can run underground, you could even use microwave links if you really wanted to.

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Statistician at Carnegie Mellon; writes on complex systems, machine learning and inference, and has kept a books-read notebook since 2000 that is now thousands of entries long.

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  Penric and the Bandit

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  Mind-candy fantasy from a highly reliable author, who is not afraid of putting beloved characters through the wringer.

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  Demon Daughter

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  Mind-candy fantasy from a highly reliable author, who is not afraid of putting beloved characters through the wringer.

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  The Adventure of the Demonic Ox

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  Mind-candy fantasy from a highly reliable author, who is not afraid of putting beloved characters through the wringer.

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  The Overnight Kidnapper

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  Mind-candy mystery from a highly reliable author.

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  LLM-based evaluation methods are more reliable and nuanced than traditional automated metrics

  LLMs

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  This is why model-based evaluation is increasingly popular-it offers more reliable and nuanced evals than traditional metrics.

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American open-source program lead working on WordPress; a WordPress core contributor and release lead who writes at jeffpaul.com.

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  Apple Magic Keyboard with Touch ID

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  Apple Magic Keyboard with Touch ID — simple and reliable.

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Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".

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  Whoop

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  Summarizing all of that into my advice right now: Get Whoop for 9.5/10, reliable, convenient sleep tracking with an excellent app (once you get to know it a bit). Get Oura for 10/10 tracking, if you're ok with the ring form factor.

  karpathy.bearblog.dev

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  Oura

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  Summarizing all of that into my advice right now: Get Whoop for 9.5/10, reliable, convenient sleep tracking with an excellent app (once you get to know it a bit). Get Oura for 10/10 tracking, if you're ok with the ring form factor.

  karpathy.bearblog.dev

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  8Sleep Pod 4 Ultra

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  I didn't find 8Sleep to be very reliable in its sleep tracking. The scores don't make as much sense to me when I wake up, and as we saw above they don't correlate very strongly with Whoop or Oura.

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Engineer and writer on machine-learning systems; author of Designing Machine Learning Systems and AI Engineering. "I work to bring AI into production. I write about AI system design."

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  Building a working AI demo is far easier than turning it into a reliable production product.

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  This is perhaps one of the first painful lessons anyone who has built an AI product quickly learns. It's easy to build a demo, but hard to build a product.

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  Release It! Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software

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  A useful read for more experienced engineers and those wanting to improve architecture and devops skills on designing and operating reliable systems. The content is excellent, but the book is not designed to be read in one sitting.

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Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.

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  Wealth is what you have divided by what you want, so the reliable way to become wealthier is to want less.

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  Once you have some, the easiest way to increase your wealth is to decrease your needs.

  Wealth = Have ÷ Wantsive.rs